{"id":27637,"date":"2017-03-29T15:15:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=27637"},"modified":"2017-03-29T15:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T22:15:54","slug":"stage-set-for-afc-u-20-futsal-championship-thailand-2017-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2017\/03\/29\/stage-set-for-afc-u-20-futsal-championship-thailand-2017-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage set for AFC U-20 Futsal Championship Thailand 2017 draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, <strong>The stage is set for the AFC U-20 Futsal Championship Thailand 2017 official draw which will take place at 3:00pm (local time) on March 30 in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tournament will take place in the Thai capital from May 16 to 26, 2017 at the Bangkok Arena and the Huamark Indoor Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>There will be 21 teams in the tournament, consisting of one (1) group of six (6) teams and three (3) groups of five (5) Teams. The group winners and runners-up from each group, eight teams in total, will qualify for the knockout stage (quarter-finals).<\/p>\n<p>The four winners of the quarter-finals will qualify to the semi-finals, and subsequently the winners of the semi-finals will advance to the final while the two losing teams will play in the third placing match.<\/p>\n<p>Since this is an inaugural competition all the participating countries will be seeded as per the final ranking based on the AFC Futsal Championship Uzbekistan 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The teams will be drawn from their respective pots as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pot 1:<br \/>\nIslamic Republic of Iran, Uzbekistan, Thailand (host), Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>Pot 2:<br \/>\nJapan, Iraq, Kyrgyz Republic, Qatar<\/p>\n<p>Pot 3:<br \/>\nChina PR, Malaysia, Lebanon, Chinese Taipei<\/p>\n<p>Pot 4:<br \/>\nTajikistan<\/p>\n<p>Pot 5 (unranked teams):<br \/>\nAfghanistan, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Mongolia, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia<\/p>\n<p><strong>Live Draw Stream:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AFC U20 Futsal Championship Thailand 2017 - Live Draw\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Aa2qrRbtTa4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFC &#8211; KUALA LUMPUR, The stage is set for the AFC U-20 Futsal Championship Thailand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":27638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,88,140,91,86,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c15-futsal","category-iran-u19","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-c14-youth-teams"],"views":6427,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}